Thirty years after the O.J. Simpson trial, as the world awaits a verdict in Combs’ federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial, interest in celebrity court cases remains high, but public discourse around race and intimate partner violence has changed.

Sean "Diddy" Combs and his son Justin Combs were hit with a lawsuit this week from a woman claiming she was "held prisoner" and gang raped.

For seven weeks, a jury in Manhattan has listened as prosecutors laid out a criminal sex trafficking and racketeering case against rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. They heard his ex-girlfriends and other witnesses deliver shocking accounts of violence and drug-fueled sexual marathons.